The Altar271“Make an Altar of acacia wood. Make it seven and a half feet square and four and a half feet high. 2Make horns at each of the four corners. The horns are to be of one piece with the Altar and covered with a veneer of bronze. 3Make buckets for removing the ashes, along with shovels, basins, forks, and fire pans. Make all these utensils from bronze. 4Make a grate of bronze mesh and attach bronze rings at each of the four corners. 5Put the grate under the ledge of the Altar at the halfway point of the Altar. 6Make acacia wood poles for the Altar and cover them with a veneer of bronze. 7Insert the poles through the rings on the two sides of the Altar for carrying. 8Use boards to make the Altar, keeping the interior hollow.The Courtyard9“Make a Courtyard for The Dwelling. The south side is to be 150 feet long. The hangings for the Courtyard are to be woven from fine twisted linen, 10with their twenty posts, twenty bronze bases, and fastening hooks and bands of silver. 11The north side is to be exactly the same.12“For the west end of the Courtyard you will need seventy–five feet of hangings with their ten posts and bases. 13Across the seventy–five feet at the front, or east end, 14you will need twenty–two and a half feet of hangings, with their three posts and bases on one side 15and the same for the other side. 16At the door of the Courtyard make a screen thirty feet long woven from blue, purple, and scarlet stuff, with fine twisted linen, embroidered by a craftsman, and hung on its four posts and bases. 17All the posts around the Courtyard are to be banded with silver, with hooks of silver and bases of bronze. 18The Courtyard is to be 150 feet long and seventy–five feet wide. The hangings of fine twisted linen set on their bronze bases are to be seven and a half feet high. 19All the tools used for setting up The Holy Dwelling, including all the pegs in it and the Courtyard, are to be made of bronze.20“Now, order the Israelites to bring you pure, clear olive oil for light so that the lamps can be kept burning. 21In the Tent of Meeting, the area outside the curtain that veils The Testimony, Aaron and his sons will keep this light burning from evening until morning before God. This is to be a permanent practice down through the generations for Israelites.”